A slight, melancholy tale set in the flatlands of East Anglia, with Jean Simmons as an ageing matriarch whose son Robert (James Wilby) cavils at the disquieting presence of a monosyllabic but hunky Gypsy (Jamie Dornan). Unsurprisingly, Robert's teenage daughter takes a different view.

Director and co-writer David Rocksavage, aka the 7th Marquess of Cholmondeley, works hard to create a mood of understated wistfulness, so much so that his film ends up verging on the inconsequential.

Nice performances all round keep things ticking along, but they're not helped by irritating devices such as the students performing The Tempest on a nearby beach.